My life just got a meaning
MOHAN Foundation stands for life, for the selfless cause of organ donation. It is not so simple to summarize the tireless efforts of such an organization to a few lines. Being a small fish in this ocean of love, passion, and altruism, I hope to share with you the achievements of…
Guess What, my third kidney also ran in the 5k run of the TCS World 10K Bengaluru!
Mr. Anant AcharyaWearing a hot pink dhoti and a T-shirt I entered the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru in the early morning hours of May 21, 2023 to promote Organ Donation.The World 10K Bengaluru (known as the TCS World 10K Bengaluru by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)) is an annual 10 kilometres road…
From the ‘Perspective’ of an Organ Donation Ambassador
Generally, I prefer starting my blogs with a quote or a personal anecdote but for this report, I thought it would be best to start with the truth instead…If I’m being honest, I have procrastinated writing about my experience as an ‘organ donation ambassador’ for quite a while – Probably…
‘Antha mana manchike’- Everything is for a good cause.
I started my internship at MOHAN Foundation on June 15, 2022. On the very first day I had a talk with Dr. Hemal about organ donation and blood donation. I had told her that I wanted to donate blood, especially when it is an emergency case. Little did I know…
Internship at MOHAN Foundation – A Great Opportunity for a Law student to Enhance Knowledge
What started as a random Google search regarding internship opportunities in NGOs at Chennai, led me towards a really useful opportunity to be a legal intern at the MOHAN Foundation. Upon learning about the works of MOHAN Foundation, it only made me more intrigued to try out interning at the…
Caring for the caregiver
I was interviewing caregivers of organ failure patients for the first time. In order to assess the health status of caregivers in general and understand their experiences, I prepared a set of questions. Sometimes just talking and learning from their experiences can be so overwhelming that you realize that nothing…
My interaction with a renal transplant recipient
On the 16th of June 2021, was the day I had a great learning experience when I spoke with the kidney recipient. I, a mere social work trainee who has little knowledge of kidney transplantation had always wondered what was running in the minds of the patients. Could it be…
My experiences with vegetable vendors
Subashini, Intern from MMM College of Health Sciences In the first year of my college I became aware of organ donation. When I got an opportunity to intern at MOHAN Foundation, an organization that works to promote deceased organ donation and transplantation in my final year that I really began…
Being a Karamveer on Amitabh Bachchan’s Show – ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’
By Dr.Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation. I was invited last week to appear on one of the biggest Indian television game shows ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ or KBC. Sony Entertainment Television and KBC wished to promote organ donation through the NGO called MOHAN Foundation. I, being the founder and managing…
Organ Donation and a Wedding
I had never felt more awkward or out of place. Here I was, more than 13,000 kilometers away from home, surrounded by people at a wedding I hadn’t seen in a couple of years, and speaking about organ donation. I had come to India from the U.S. for the summer…